John Bevan: Team Player – from Lions to League

The Melville Theatre The Melville Centre, Pen-y-Pound, Abergavenny

A new play by Mari Lloyd “To us, it’s not just a game, it’s who we are. ”It’s 1971. Margaret Thatcher becomes known as the ‘Milk Snatcher’. ‘Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid’ is nominated for 10 BAFTAs…And the British Lions with 13 Welsh players do something that has never been done before…and never repeated since. They defeat the mighty All Blacks on their own turf in New Zealand. Imagine, like John Bevan, that you are 20 years old, and part of that phenomenal success. How does that feel? And what happens afterwards? Within two years John Bevan leaves Union for [...]